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What killed Steve Jobs?

  • Pancreatic Cancer

    Votes: 65 12.2%

  • AIDS from having gay sex with Tim Cook

    Votes: 468 87.8%
  • Total voters
    533
AnOminous said:
At end of life (an MBP from 2010), I just installed PeppermintOS on it. Then rEFInd (a fork of the rEFIt boot manager that replaces EFI). Then Windows 10 and dual booted it. Both ran faster than High Sierra.

Does it still have the Recovery Partition? I think Command-Option-R gets you there, and should just automatically go to the Internet if not and download the latest supported version. I'd consider completely wiping the drive of all partitions.

Apple doesn't officially support it any more which is an issue, and may be deliberately being obnoxious about even letting you download or install it.
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Problem is that it's not mine and it was not me that did the damage. The recovery partition is still there(sans OS). It allows me to install over internet, except it needs to authenticate the machine and then it needs an Apple ID. That is not as simple as it sounds and it's the reason why I'm making bootable USB sticks. GPT is my last resort.
The older versions(Yosemite and a couple more) can be downloaded but the M1(I think it's an M1, it's new) refuses to have anything to do with them so Apple's official guides doesn't work.
And like I said, the installation over the net is fucked beyond belief.

Side question, I tried to do some sudo things in the terminal that requires a password but the owner of the computer uses the finger print reader... terminal doesn't take fingerprints it seems. Pressing enter for a blank password doesn't work either. Neither does the AppleID password of the owner.

Why does the pinwheel spin when I try to make an @ and hit what should be alt? I'm so frustrated.

Come hell or high water I'm going to get that piece of shit OS installed on that machine.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
Side question, I tried to do some sudo things in the terminal that requires a password but the owner of the computer uses the finger print reader... terminal doesn't take fingerprints it seems. Pressing enter for a blank password doesn't work either. Neither does the AppleID password of the owner.
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The owner would've set a password while setting up the Mac specific for the user account, if the owner doesn't remember it help them reset it in recovery mode
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
Problem is that it's not mine and it was not me that did the damage. The recovery partition is still there(sans OS). It allows me to install over internet, except it needs to authenticate the machine and then it needs an Apple ID. That is not as simple as it sounds and it's the reason why I'm making bootable USB sticks. GPT is my last resort.
The older versions(Yosemite and a couple more) can be downloaded but the M1(I think it's an M1, it's new) refuses to have anything to do with them so Apple's official guides doesn't work.
And like I said, the installation over the net is fucked beyond belief.

Side question, I tried to do some sudo things in the terminal that requires a password but the owner of the computer uses the finger print reader... terminal doesn't take fingerprints it seems. Pressing enter for a blank password doesn't work either. Neither does the AppleID password of the owner.

Why does the pinwheel spin when I try to make an @ and hit what should be alt? I'm so frustrated.

Come hell or high water I'm going to get that piece of shit OS installed on that machine.
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There is a pam module you can install to use the fingerprint scanner to auth sudo
 
Thiletonomics said:
The rumored Apple EV Car has been delayed to 2026, and will be changed from being full-self-driving, to having driver controls, and is expected to start at $100k. If this car actually does come out, then how many people are expected to go CONSOOM mode on and get one, just because of a certain fruit logo on it? Would Apple Stans be even worse than Tesla Stans in this case too?
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The whole point of CONSOOM marketing is to make it just on the upper limit of what the average person is willing to splurge, so that they can feel like they’re getting something “exclusive”. Like, the choice between getting a normal, practical car, or spending $10k more for the status symbol.

I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve seen IRL with AirPods Max’s (vs the TONS of people who you see walking around with some flavor of normal AirPods). If they can’t even get people to CONSOOM on a pair of $550 headphones, they’re not gonna get people to CONSOOM a $100k car.
 
Gar For Archer said:
I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve seen IRL with AirPods Max’s (vs the TONS of people who you see walking around with some flavor of normal AirPods). If they can’t even get people to CONSOOM on a pair of $550 headphones, they’re not gonna get people to CONSOOM a $100k car.
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I know many people with >$100k cars but most are leased. The lease cost for the Apple EV will be high and will be on the upper end of what middle-class people can afford. Once 3-4 years rolls around, they will swap the leased car for the latest generation which will cost even more and will be on the upper end of what middle-class people can afford.

It feels very much like Apple to me that people would pay a lot of money to not own something in the end. Perhaps they will do rental apartments next.

On the subject of the big headphones - do people actually wear giant headphones around though? I keep my full-size headphones at home and take my airpods when on the move. Personally I prefer to not have a bag and keep everything in my pockets most of the time. The maxes don't look bad but I don't feel compelled to buy a new pair of headphones when I already have a pretty nice set (sony XM4).
 
glow said:
I know many people with >$100k cars but most are leased. The lease cost for the Apple EV will be high and will be on the upper end of what middle-class people can afford. Once 3-4 years rolls around, they will swap the leased car for the latest generation which will cost even more and will be on the upper end of what middle-class people can afford.

It feels very much like Apple to me that people would pay a lot of money to not own something in the end. Perhaps they will do rental apartments next.

On the subject of the big headphones - do people actually wear giant headphones around though? I keep my full-size headphones at home and take my airpods when on the move. Personally I prefer to not have a bag and keep everything in my pockets most of the time. The maxes don't look bad but I don't feel compelled to buy a new pair of headphones when I already have a pretty nice set (sony XM4).
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Being a financially responsible person, the thought of leasing a car at least 2-3x out of my price range literally never even crossed my mind. But I must concede that, horrifyingly enough, you are correct.

I mostly see people wear big headphones at the office or at the gym. It’s certainly possible that there’s more people who own them but only use them at home, I suppose. I also own a pair of XM4’s I got on eBay for $200 basically brand new; they’re good headphones* but I can’t say I’d ever pay 400 bucks for them.

*the noise cancelling is great and the sound is pretty good to my shitty untrained ears, but holy crap are the materials and build quality absolute garbage. My pair started creaking at the hinges at the slightest movement of my head, which is apparently a very common issue with the XM3/XM4’s due to the shitty plastic they’re made of, and I had to take them apart and lube the hinge with silicon grease to get it to mostly go away. At $550 it’s impossible to call the AirPods Max a “good value”, but they at least look and feel like a set of premium headphones.
 
Gar For Archer said:
*the noise cancelling is great and the sound is pretty good to my shitty untrained ears, but holy crap are the materials and build quality absolute garbage. My pair started creaking at the hinges at the slightest movement of my head, which is apparently a very common issue with the XM3/XM4’s due to the shitty plastic they’re made of, and I had to take them apart and lube the hinge with silicon grease to get it to mostly go away. At $550 it’s impossible to call the AirPods Max a “good value”, but they at least look and feel like a set of premium headphones.
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I agree, I had temporarily forgotten but I have already had to get my XM4s fixed thanks to a failure where one of the microphones used for the noise cancelling machinery was broken and it would randomly screech or click into my ear.

I only have myself to blame for this of course, I had one of the first generation headsets and towards the end they were literally held together with cable ties and duct tape before it was just too embarrassing to be on conference calls with them. I assumed the later model would have better build quality, and there certainly is an improvement, but when they next fail me I'm keen to try another brand.
 
I've been having to use a macbook for work and it has been the worst experience of my entire fucking life. That is all.
 
Command Prompt Disabled said:
One of the few things Mac has going for it is that macOS is based on UNIX, so if you use a distro as a daily driver you may be comfortable with it.

FileVault storing the key in iCloud is retarded for encryption though.
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Most command line things commonly used in Unix are available in homebrew, which is actually a credible package manager.
 
I'm not sure if anyone's really mentioned this, but I want to mention how fucking horrendous the promotional images and advertising Apple uses are nowadays. This post took me a while to write, but it's not because I have much to say, but it's because I've been playing "Spot the Nigger" with Apple's website and keynotes for the past hour. I haven't killed so much time because THEY ARE FUCKING EVERYWHERE.
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They can't even be normal looking niggers either. At least when they put a nigger in older Apple promotional images (like before Jobs kicked the bucket) they at least chose some that looked like human beings and didn't make up all of the fucking people they used. But now they always have to be some sort of disgusting freak of nature. I suppose these types of pictures are tantalizing for Tim Cook's group of faggot friends who probably have orgies with each other three times a week and have lists of STDs they contracted larger than the average novel but guess what, they (fortunately) make up a very small part of this country. The average person, no matter how much the elite or even themselves try to convince them of this, wants to do anything with these inhuman degenerate faggots, and they sure as hell aren't going to be more interested in picking up an iPad by looking at this shit. Perhaps you should be tailoring these ads to these people instead of making it niggers and mutts 24/7. Fortunately, the nigger faggots are too much for the rest of the world as I checked the Saudi Arabian website and the nigger faggot in the bottom right corner of the third image got replaced, lol.
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They can't even use decent music or art in their videos either. Here's another iPad image showing drawing Algeria Art. Wow! The iPad is so advanced! I've never had a device that lets you draw MS-Paint tier drawings in my life. Shut up and take my money! Why they can't use normal drawings and activities like editing family photos or surfing videos like they used to is beyond me. The only place where I have a bit of refuge from this nonsense is the Mac Pro page, although in turn that page is so devoid of any character whatsoever.
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All in all, I think this comparison between two ads shows how Apple can't advertise for shit anymore. Here's an iPod silhouette commercial from about the early 2000s:
And now here's a silhouette commercial that they made for the AirPods Pro
The concept of the original silhouette commercial was pretty simple. It was just a bunch of cool looking people rocking out to cool music. The people had enough detail where you can sort of make out things like their clothes and hairstyles, which added to how these people were supposed to represent the coolest of the cool, but not enough so you could project yourself and go "hey if I had an iPod maybe I could be cool like that too". THE NEW COMMERCIAL CAN'T EVEN FUCKING GET THAT RIGHT. For starters, the music actually has to be listenable (not some shitty knockoff trap music), and POPULAR. The fact that people recognized the music played in these ads is part of what made the original ad campaign succeed. I tried looking up the guy who made the song in the AirPods commercial, Lex Junior, and the first thing I see on his website is a blurb bragging that his song was used once in an Apple commercial. This guy is so irrelevant that as far as I'm concerned they just slapped on some stock music and called it a day, in turn missing half of the point. The other half of the point they missed is that these are supposed to be SILHOUETTES and not niggers in dark lighting. But no, making it so you can see every pore of the nigger lady's skin makes perfect sense, why understand what made the original silhouette campaign so successful when you can just coast on nostalgiabaiting and diversity and call it day.

Apple can make some nice products, but I hope Tim Cook drops dead.
 
Nguyen Van Phuoc said:
I'm not sure if anyone's really mentioned this, but I want to mention how fucking horrendous the promotional images and advertising Apple uses are nowadays. This post took me a while to write, but it's not because I have much to say, but it's because I've been playing "Spot the Nigger" with Apple's website and keynotes for the past hour. I haven't killed so much time because THEY ARE FUCKING EVERYWHERE.
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They can't even be normal looking niggers either. At least when they put a nigger in older Apple promotional images (like before Jobs kicked the bucket) they at least chose some that looked like human beings and didn't make up all of the fucking people they used. But now they always have to be some sort of disgusting freak of nature. I suppose these types of pictures are tantalizing for Tim Cook's group of faggot friends who probably have orgies with each other three times a week and have lists of STDs they contracted larger than the average novel but guess what, they (fortunately) make up a very small part of this country. The average person, no matter how much the elite or even themselves try to convince them of this, wants to do anything with these inhuman degenerate faggots, and they sure as hell aren't going to be more interested in picking up an iPad by looking at this shit. Perhaps you should be tailoring these ads to these people instead of making it niggers and mutts 24/7. Fortunately, the nigger faggots are too much for the rest of the world as I checked the Saudi Arabian website and the nigger faggot in the bottom right corner of the third image got replaced, lol.
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They can't even use decent music or art in their videos either. Here's another iPad image showing drawing Algeria Art. Wow! The iPad is so advanced! I've never had a device that lets you draw MS-Paint tier drawings in my life. Shut up and take my money! Why they can't use normal drawings and activities like editing family photos or surfing videos like they used to is beyond me. The only place where I have a bit of refuge from this nonsense is the Mac Pro page, although in turn that page is so devoid of any character whatsoever.
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All in all, I think this comparison between two ads shows how Apple can't advertise for shit anymore. Here's an iPod silhouette commercial from about the early 2000s:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TaVFCdwT0hkAnd now here's a silhouette commercial that they made for the AirPods Pro
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-5y2YqrlOr4The concept of the original silhouette commercial was pretty simple. It was just a bunch of cool looking people rocking out to cool music. The people had enough detail where you can sort of make out things like their clothes and hairstyles, which added to how these people were supposed to represent the coolest of the cool, but not enough so you could project yourself and go "hey if I had an iPod maybe I could be cool like that too". THE NEW COMMERCIAL CAN'T EVEN FUCKING GET THAT RIGHT. For starters, the music actually has to be listenable (not some shitty knockoff trap music), and POPULAR. The fact that people recognized the music played in these ads is part of what made the original ad campaign succeed. I tried looking up the guy who made the song in the AirPods commercial, Lex Junior, and the first thing I see on his website is a blurb bragging that his song was used once in an Apple commercial. This guy is so irrelevant that as far as I'm concerned they just slapped on some stock music and called it a day, in turn missing half of the point. The other half of the point they missed is that these are supposed to be SILHOUETTES and not niggers in dark lighting. But no, making it so you can see every pore of the nigger lady's skin makes perfect sense, why understand what made the original silhouette campaign so successful when you can just coast on nostalgiabaiting and diversity and call it day.

Apple can make some nice products, but I hope Tim Cook drops dead.
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2000s had soul. By the early-2010s, things died. And Tim Cook is a complete and total pile of shit of a CEO.
 
Command Prompt Disabled said:
FileVault storing the key in iCloud is retarded for encryption though.
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Most things in iCloud are encrypted now, with a feature called Advanced Data Protection. The only things not included to my knowledge are emails, probably at the request of government spooks. As far as I was aware, FileVault stores the key locally, but looking it up gives cryptic answers, the most they say is that it’s stored in the user’s account. If it is in iCloud it might be encrypted now if that’s even possible as I’m a bit retarded.
 
I hope Tim cook and the entire R&D department have a special place in hell reserved for them for taking out the head jack because now google and Samsung are finally chasing that trend and now its getting harder and harder to find a decent phone with a head jack
 
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